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Elephant seal outbreak marks first transnational spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza in mammals
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Luciana Gallo of BIOMAR-CONICET and Marcela Uhart of UC Davis sample for highly pathogenic H5N1 among cormorants (by shore) and terns (in ...
Starless and forever alone: More ‘rogue’ planets discovered
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A NASA handout illustration shows an ice-encrusted, Earth-mass planet. Scientists estimate there could be trillions of rogue planets in the Milky Way ...
Detecting ‘Hawking radiation’ from black holes using today’s telescopes
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The HESS. II five-telescope gamma-ray detector in Namibia. Credit: Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1974 Stephen Hawking famously claimed that black ...
Hubble views cosmic dust lanes
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This Hubble Space Telescope image showcases a nearly edge-on view of the lenticular galaxy NGC 4753. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Kelsey ...
Computer models suggest modern plate tectonics are due to blobs left behind by cosmic collision
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Temporal evolution for the viscosity (upper row) and compositional (lower row) field of the 3D reference case showing LLSVP-sourced plume-induced subduction initiation. ...
Researchers build new device that is a foundation for quantum computing
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Schematics of the nonreciprocal device, with its circulator (center), qubit port, superconducting cavity, and output port. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj8796 ...
Fastest-spinning asteroid recently hit Earth’s atmosphere and crashed in Berlin
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Scientists have found that an asteroid which crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere earlier this year was spinning at the highest rate ever known, ...
Scientists solve a long-standing mystery surrounding the moon’s ‘lopsided’ geology
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Schematic illustration with a gravity gradient map (blue hexagonal pattern) of the lunar nearside and a cross-section showing two ilmenite-bearing cumulate downwellings ...
Fossil unearthed in New Zealand contains the largest fossil crab claw ever found
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Pseudocarcinus karlraubenheimeri n. sp., A, holotype, NMNZ CR.027704, showing dorsal carapace, thoracic sternum and major right cheliped (male); B, detail of right ...
Where will you be for the April 8 total solar eclipse? There’s still time to grab a spot
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People gather near Redmond, Ore., to view the sun as it nears a total eclipse by the moon, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. ...
